No audio--Realtek and 7

[Braermont]

I've been at this most of the evening, reading posts and trying to figure it out on my own, to no avail. Just built a new pc with Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 mobo with onboard Realtek HD Audio. I'm running windows 7 Home Premium 64 and getting no sound at all. Tried the latest driver, and not so latest. I've got the current one now R2.55 and 6.0.1.6257.
All my junk is plugged in and reading correctly, that is my system sees it. The audio 'appears to process' with the dancing green bars and whatnot. My volume is maxed in both the HD Audio manager and Windows volume control. No mutes there. I have green checkmarks where they're supposed to be, and have both tried my speakers on another rig as well as tried my rig on other speakers. Headphones do not work either, but the jack will register when I add/remove. Have 5.1 set up, all the panel slots set up correctly. Think that's about it.

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope

 

[fireberd]

Do you have your "speakers" (sound card) selected as the Default Playback device in the Control Panel/Hardware and Sound and finally Sound Panel?

 

[fishnbanjo]

Where are you getting your Realtek drivers? I would start by getting them from the ASUS website downloads for your mobo and see if this resolves your issue, post back with your results.

 

[Braermont]

Firstly, thanks for replying.

Yep, I have the "speakers" enabled and defaulted throughout.

Firstly I fetched the drivers from the Realtek website. I just jogged over to Asus and tried those out. Unfortunately they yielded no results.

 

[rap33042]

New build? Have you checked BIOS settings?
Is on-board audio enabled?

 

[Braermont]

Yep, I forgot to mention that. It's enabled in bios. Yeah, brand spanking new build.

 

[rap33042]

Just grasping at straws here, but:

What is Device Manager showing? Any nasty yellow triangles? Any red X's?

Have you tried changing your speaker configuration settings from 5.1 to something else?

What type of sound files are you trying to play? Do you have all the required Codecs?

 

[Braermont]

Device manager looks good, no triangles or x's. Just tried switching my speaker config to the other settings, nothing there. As far as sound files go, to determine if I have sound I crank the speakers up, test in Realtek manager and usually have an mp3 looping in the background via winamp.

 

[rap33042]

Well, I'm at a loss.
Sorry I didn't help.

There are a lot of people here a lot smarter than I am, so hang in there.

 

[Braermont]

I appreciate the response mate

 

[alphanumeric]

Does your case have front panel audio jacks? If yes, are they connected properly and setup correctly in the BIOS? My ASUS motherboard has two different configurations for the front panel audio, HD Audio and Legacy AC97. Also the cable to the front panel audio jacks in my case has two connectors, HD audio and Legacy AC97. I don't know what happens if you get these crossed but it probably wouldn't hurt to double check them. You appear to done everything else trying to fix your problem.

 

[kano650]

I just built a system for a friend and had a very similar problem. It's got a
Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2V MB motherboard with Realtech audio device, 64 bit Win 7. I managed to get it working by doing this:

Go to control panel/realtech HD Audio Manager. In the top right corner where it says 'Device advanced Settings' click on that and change it to "Make front and rear output devices playback two different audio streams simultaneously"

This created a Speakers output device in Control Panel/Sound/Playback. Suddenly my sound started working (blasted me out of the room as all my volume controls were maxed ). This worked until the next reboot then the sound stopped again.

I went back in to Realtech HD Audio Manager and changed the setting back to the mute rear speaker option when headphones are plugged in. I clicked on the green icon of the Analog Back Panel connector and selected Front Speaker out.

That fixed my problem I'm not sure exactly why but it worked! Not sure if this will work for you but hopefully it might help.

Cheers

 

[dreamerboyfreak]

@Kano650

I have got the same motherboard with intel core i3 and a win 7... i'm having trouble connecting the front audio panel of the casing with the motherboard. I've read the manual and connected to a port named "F_audio" or something like that, but still there's no sound in the front panel. it's really annoying to connect my microphone/headphone everytime at the back of the casing. is there anything i need to change in the control panel? it's my new pc and it's been really a pain in the ass...
hoping you could help...

-F.A.Z